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The Online Burma/Myanmar Library (OBL) is a non-profit online research library mainly in English and Burmese serving academics, activists, diplomats, NGOs, CSOs, CBOs and other Burmese and international actors. It is also, of course, open to the general public. Though we provide lists of Burma/Myanmar news sources, the Library’s main content is not news but in-depth articles, reports, laws, videos and links to other websites, We provide a search engine (database and full text) and an alphabetical list of categories and sub-categories, but the Library is best accessed through browsing the 100 or so categories which lead to sub- and sub-sub categories. These tools should be used in combination.
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Displaying 161 - 165 of 1151Analysis of Customary Communal Tenure in the Myanmar Uplands (Powerpoint presentation)
Customary communal tenure is characteristic of many local shifting cultivation upland communities in S.E. Asia. These communities have strong ancestral relationships to their land, which has never been held under individual rights, but considered common property of the village. Communal tenure has been the norm and land has never been a commodity...
Socio-economic Changes in Livelihood of Htantaw Village Amarapura Township, Mandalay Region
Abstract: "Considering
health
in
the
broad
term
as
well–being
this
study
examines
changes
to
villagers’
lives
with
the
effect
of
privatization
and
modernization
policies.
It
explores
how
their
economy
is
related
to
the
changing
environment
in
both
time
and
space.
Socio-economic Changes in Livelihood of Htantaw Village Amarapura Township, Mandalay Region
Abstract: "Considering
health
in
the
broad
term
as
well–being
this
study
examines
changes
to
villagers’
lives
with
the
effect
of
privatization
and
modernization
policies.
It
explores
how
their
economy
is
related
to
the
changing
environment
in
both
time
and
space.
Women of the Kachin Conflict: Trafficking and Militarized Femininity on the Burma-China Border
Trafficking and Militarized Femininity on the Burma-China Border
Women of the Kachin Conflict: Trafficking and Militarized Femininity on the Burma-China Border
Trafficking and Militarized Femininity on the Burma-China Border